Dimensions
230 x 185 x 13mm
A stunning journey in striking photographic images and intimate personal stories through the world of women in Afghanistan before, during, and after the Taliban.
This book seeks to tell the personal stories, through photographs and short anecdotes, of several women in Afghanistan who spent years depersonalized behind their veils. In 1997, Harriet Logan went to Afghanistan and met a phenomenal group of women with strong personalities and great dreams for their lives.
Despite the peril to her life and theirs, she photographed them. From November to December 2001, Logan returned to Afghanistan to find these women again, and to learn how their situation had evolved since the first time she met them, under the repressive rule of the Taliban.
Logan also captures the feeling of newfound freedom the women have, following the departure of the Taliban. Her photographs takes the reader on a moving journey through the images of markets newly brimming with beauty products and photographs of Western movie stars, to joyful scenes of women laughing in the street, their faces no longer covered.
The book follows the individual stories of women of all ages through personal interviews as they reveal stories of unimaginable sadness and abiding strength as they share their ideas, their optimism, and their trepidation about what the future will bring to their once-flourishing, now war-torn country.
